Belt-fastener.



H. L. HATHAWAY.

BELT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED .IUIIE29| I9I6.

gj, Patented Mar.19,1918.

NETE@ TTFE PATENT HENRY L. HATHAWAY, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO.

BELT-FASTENER.

Application led June 29, 1916.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY L. HA'rHAwAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in thecounty of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belt-Fasteners, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to belt fasteners, and is especially applicable for fastening the ends of woven belting, such as cotton belting and rubber belting, the latter, in practice, having a woven body. The character of belting to which my invention applies is beltingemployed for power purposes, for instance, for being received about pulleys for driving machinery, or for conveying material.

vIt is the object of my invention to provide a fastener having piercing prongs so constructed, positioned and arranged as to pierce the fabric and to force the strands of Athe fabric out of their normal planes into deflected lines about and between the piercing prongs, the piercing prongs being arranged in offset relation and comprising longer piercing prongs arranged to be laid over toward shorter piercing prongs for crowding the deflected strands between the said prongs. The shorter prongs may, if desired, be clenched upon the ends of said longer prongs.

The invention will be further readily understood from the following description and claims, and from the drawing, in which latter- Figure 1 represents a plan view of two proximate ends of a textile belting, partly broken away.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a bottom view 0f the belt fastener.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 5 is a bottom face view of the proximare ends of the belting, showing the prong side of the fasteners, the belt being partly broken away; and

Fig. 6 `is a diagonal section of the same taken on the line 6--6 of Fig. 5.

11, 12, represent the proximate ends of a belt 13,the ends of which are arranged to abut one another, as shown at 14. r1`he belting exemplified is a woven belting, for instance a cotton belting, although it is to be understood that my invention is also appli- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

serial no. 105,599.

cable to other characters of woven beltings, for instance, rubber belting.

The belt fasteners are exemplied at 15, andcomprise piercing prongs 16 which are diagonally arranged at the respective corners of the plate 17 of the fastener, as exemplified in Fig. 3. rThe fastener also comprises piercing prongs 18 which are exemplified as being shorter than the piercing prongs 16 and are preferably arranged at the intersection of planes perpendicular to the width ofthe piercing prongs 16. One of the piercing prongs 18 is located in olfset relation between each pair of piercing prongs 16 for forming slanting spaces 19 between the piercing prongs 18 and the piercing prongs 16. The piercing prongs taper toward their upper ends and their upper ends terminate in points for readily piercing the fabric and deflecting the strands thereof -without shredding or cutting the latter.

There is one of the pair of piercing prongs 16 and their coacting piercing prong 18 located at each end of the fastener.

tn employing myimproved fastener, the piercing prongs at the respective ends of the same are forced through the web of the woven belting.

vWoven belting to which my invention is particularly applicable comprises warp strands 21 forming the warp of the belting and weft strands 22 forming the woof of the belting. Vhen piercing the belting, the arrangement of the piercing prongs causes the strands of the woven belting to shift for arranging the warp strands received in the spaces 19 in slanting manner in said spaces, as shown at 23, the weft strands being also arranged in slanting manner in said spaces, as shown at 24.

The piercing of the woven belting by the piercing prongs causes the warp and weft strands to arrange themselves out of their normal lines in the spaces between said prongs and to be compressed in said spaces by the piercing action.

After the prongs have pierced the belting, the ends of the longer prongs 16, which extend through the belting, are bent diagonally with relation to each other and the plate toward the coacting prong 18, as shown at 25, this action further compressing the strands, and insuring a firm grip upon the warp and weft strands between prongs 16 after the latter have been bent toward the piercing prong 18 for holdin-g the ends of the piercing prongs 16 securely toward the woven belting and locking the saine rivetvvis'e in place.

rlClie Widths of the piercing prongs 19l preferably extend in the direction of the length of the plate and belting.

My invention provides a very simple belt fastening for Woven belting, easily applied, and so arranged as' to provide extremely iirm securing connection.

Having thus fully described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,- is:

1. nl belt fastener, comprising a substantially rectangular plate, piercing prongs extending perpendicular to said plate at the respective corners thereof, the Widths of said piercing prongs arranged diagonally of said corners, and a piercing prong adjacent to each end of said plate extending perpendicular to said plate and located at the point of intersection of the planes perpendicular to the' Widths of said first-named piercing prongs at the end of said Aplate adjacent to which said last-named piercing prong is' located, for forming spaces between Cis'" of this' patent may be Vobtained for five cents each,` by addressing the VCommissoner of Patents.

fthe belting and arranged to be bent toward the adjacent one said second-named pieroing prongs, and said last named prong spread upon said adjacent ones of said firstnamed piercing prongs.

2. In a belt fastener, the combination-With the proximate ends of belting,l of an integral substantially rectangular plate lapping both said ends at one sidey thereof, each lcorner of said plate having a long prong extending substantially perpendicular from Vsaid Vplate through said belting ends, and each end portion of said plate having anvadditional prong extending substantially perpendicular fronifsaid plate and spaced from the outer end Aof said end portion on Which the same is located, said additional prong located substantial-ly equidistant from said long prongs at said last-named end, the outer ends of said long prongs ben-t diagonally cro'ssWise of the other side of said ends of belting into proximity With the adjacent additional prong, which additional prong extends through said belting and past said last-named outer ends of said long prongs, and the outer end of said short prong spread by upsetting upon said outer ends of said adjacent long prongs.

ln testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of tWoisubscribing Witnesses.

HENRY L. HATI-IAl/VA-Y. Witnesses:

CHARLES E. WEBER, THERESA M. SILBER.

Washington,l D. C. 

